[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384188: bluez-utils: pairing fails from PC to mobile, but succeeds the other way

[Mathias Behrle]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.1-4
Followup-For: Bug #384188

I don't know, if this belongs really to this bug, but instead of opening a new one I prefer to provide additional information:
I followed all described procedures to put passkeys in /etc/bluetooth/default and resp. /etc/bluetooth/00:0E:07:8A:1E:FD sticking for the rest to the Debain default configuration. 

Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: Bluetooth HCI daemon                                                                                                                                   
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: Register path:/org/bluez fallback:1                                                                                                                    
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: Device hci0 has been added                                                                                                                             
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: Starting security manager 0                                                                                                                            
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost sdpd[10457]: Bluetooth SDP daemon                                                                                                                                   
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: Can't write inquiry mode for hci0: Input/output error (5)                                                                                              
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: Register path:/org/bluez/hci0 fallback:0                                                                                                               
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: name_listener_add(:1.12)                                                                                                                               
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: name_listener_add(:1.13)                                                                                                                               
Sep  6 17:09:57 localhost hcid[10453]: Default passkey agent (:1.13, /org/bluez/passkey_agent_10472) registered

I could connect via 
 hcitool cc 00:0E:07:8A:1E:FD
but
 hcitool auth 00:0E:07:8A:1E:FD said:
HCI authentication request failed: Input/output error

Trying to connect with kbluetooth I got the Popup on the mobile to enter the PIN, but every time I was said, that the PIN was wrong (giving the correct PIN of course;-).

Also I couldn't discover the dongle at the PC with my mobile, which was solved according to another bug report with

dbus-send --system --dest=org.bluez /org/bluez/hci0 \
        org.bluez.Adapter.SetMode string:discoverable

Discovering and Pairing from the mobile then succeeded as usual.

I had no problems so far, always upgrading to the testing version of bluez-utils. The problem appeared, because I used the dongle on another machine pairing with just this mobile 
(so the dongle got another name in the mobile). To enable a clean new discovery I deleted the device on the mobile. Now device could not be (re)established.
 After discovering and pairing the dongle from the mobile all applications are running again.

Mathias


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental'), (400, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-md-dm-static-suspend2-asterix
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  dbus                         0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libbluetooth2                3.1-1       Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-2                  0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-2  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-82    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.2.2-3     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                     2.4.27.0-6  Linux module utilities
ii  sysvinit                     2.86.ds1-15 System-V-like init utilities

bluez-utils recommends no packages.

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